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Chapter 7 - Chapter 7 Operation: Fallen Savior

"Its called Operation: Fallen Savior" Titan states as we walk into the briefing hall of the main Federation HQ building, in said hall are three elite Federation Rangers. Rangers are one of the more "unique" soldier squadrons of the Federation, their uniqueness comes from the Super Carriers Medical/Research and Development Laboratory, Rangers are augmented with enhanced capabilities such as a hightened sense of awareness, increased speed when running, and a higher jump height. The first Ranger is Sharktooth who stands at seven feet tall and isnt human, the augmentations have certain side effects which while having a chance to not take place, can deform or change the individual being augmented, Sharktooth was turned into a seven foot tall great white shark who needs his armor to stay alive, on his armor are tubes of circulating water to the helmet and to a filtration pack on his back which only needs to be cleaned once a month, his augments give him superior strength amongst the Federation and the ability to sense any targets that are injured in some way that causes bleeding. The second Ranger is the familiar Locust, Locust is a sniper/marksman based Ranger who has the capability to see at twenty times magnification in his visor, speed that can reach up to thirty miles per hour, expert climbing abilities and the capability to turn completely invisible at will. The third and final Ranger is Jackal, unlike the rest of the Rangers who are a minimum of six feet and five inches in height Jackal is five feet and eleven inches tall armed with a custom marksman rifle and a suppressed Magpul FMG-Nine his augments give him heightened sense of hearing, heightened sense of awareness, and night vision without needing any through his visor. Titan goes up to a screen the size of a dry erase board you would see in a classroom and begins to inform us on the plan thats going to be taken place, how my augmented Ranger friends are gonna assist me, what my end goal is, and exfil plan. We walk out to the helipad and get in the Falcon landed on it to begin our flight back into the desert region of the Army of Osiris. Three hours later we arrive at the first step, the pilot comes on the comms saying "alright fellas were 100 feet above where you need to be" which was our sign to get up and prep to drop, we mount silent thrusters onto Sharktooths pack and mount our packs with the same thrusters onto our backs and we drop out of the falcon, under the cover of night we wingsuit down towards the capital building of Gehenna, once we get closer to the glass roof of the building we use the thrusters on our packs to ease our descent to a safe landing, Locust begins to laser cut the roof and i grab the part he had cut out with my fingertips, as i do so my gloves glow dimly and the cut out glass sticks to my finger tips, i put it down on the roof and deactivate whats sticking the cut glass to my gloves. After we make our descent down to the main floor where we slowly make our way to their research labs. As we make our way down the western hallway we hear two scientists with heavy accents talking about a project "is subject ready for teansport?" "Subjects already been transported and inserted into project Tomb Service, we just need authorization" as we moved closer to the door of the lab we could hear a keypad being pressed on, i look through the doorway and see two scientists raising a sort of robotic suit and begin to leave through another door, we push through the laboratory and look through all the files we could access, project Tomb Service wasnt any ordinary suit, the Army of Osiris were taking soldiers who were wounded in combat and putting them into mechanical suits to continue serving on the battlefield, the body rests in the narrow cockpit in the middle of the suit and controls everything like a second body. I pressed on the keypad and lowered the hulking mass of metal and mechanics and it began to power up "whats going on? Where am i? Why are you vermin here?!" The suit asked in search of answers, i walked towards it and removed my helmet "my name is Hyde Jackson of the Federation, your government has made what is containing you so you continue serving your countries battles against your will denying you a rightful death" i explained as i looked up at the cockpit of the suit, it remained silent for a few minutes before letting out a mechanical sigh, i put my hand on the arm of the suit "if you come back with us and help us bring down the people who did this to you then i promise you i will help you find peace" i continued as i put on my helmet, turned around and began walking away, as i did so the buildings alarm system began to scream across the entire building, we rushed to a garage door in the laboratory and pressed a button on the wall next to the door to open it, we pointed our firearms towards the enemy that had surrounded us it looked like there were hundreds of infantry in front of us with helicopters flying above with guns all pointed directly towards us until, "i may not know what the hell a Federation is or what in the lord chapter masters name this god forsaken place is but that doesnt mean im gonna let these men die here" screamed the mechanized behemoth behind us, its rotary cannon spinning as it began to unload onto every poor bastard in front of us "get behind me small battle brothers! Chain of command has been broken, i am the oldest warrior here so as your eldar i will be in charge of this newfound chapter" it screamed at us, we got behind the beast and began laying down fire on any enemies its massive armaments missed, Jackal was calling for reinforcements with a big enough vehicle to transport us which made Titan ask for clarification for which i responded with "we have a giant mechanized coffin with a skeleton more ancient than the order and its pissed off that these sandy bastards woke it up, we need all four of us extracted or the whole Army of Osiris is gonna rain upon us!" It began to laugh loudly as it continued to gun down the surrounding forces "the order is still amongst us? Then theres hope after all!" It shouted in what sounded like mechanical cheer as it began to fire the twenty millimeter cannon on its left arm destroying every enemy helicopter that flew towards us shouting "I dealt with far bigger and far meaner when i was still a man!" As he shot down one last helicopter a much larger craft flew over us, it was a massive VTOL aircraft that was as big as an AC130 but looked like a helicopter, we ran into the cargo bay after it fully opened, as it closed i sat down, the mechanical suit walked past me to my right to get strapped down for stability otherwise he would possibly tip over and potentially die again, i shaked my head not knowing the specifics and just closed my eyes, i hadnt seen such a sight before, a machine of any caliber capable of such destruction, its fury showed no bounds or signs of falter, i only wonder what that skeleton inside that behemoth of metals and wires may have seen in their era of combat. After three hours we arrived back at the Federation City, once we landed we unhooked the behemoth and walked him to the research and development lab where i said "i never caught your name ancient one" it turned to me with a mechanical growl "more labs? More tubes? Has humanity gone mad?!" I reassured the beast stating "its only so we can better understand what holds you, how it was made and what systems are keeping you alive and how, i assure you we wont let you perish prematurely and i will stay true to what i originally promised you" it thought about my words for a second and let out a sigh "very well Hyde Jackson i trust you, my name is Corvine of the Hounds Chapter of the Assassin Clan, perhaps i will educate you one day on their Doctrine" i nodded and watched as Corvine stomped away, the back of my head felt scratchy after what he told me, the Assassin Clan? What is this Clan? And are there more out there? More questions with no answers to them, this is becoming more and more troublesome by the moment. I walked down to the armory where i sat down on a bench and began to remove my helmet, as i did flashes of images coursed through my head like hot electricity, Images of the tall warriors that were once in my head back in the cell, i rolled onto the ground and clenched my head in agony, voices began to whisper in my head "put the helmet back on" over and over again, they began to get angrier, meaner "put it back on fool!" "Do it coward! Put it on for and feel your true power" they would yell into my ears until i finally put back on the helmet, my right eye burned as if someone poked it with their finger, i could hear blood dripping onto the visor from my right eye, as i opened it everything in my vision was black with a wispy surface to it, as i began to look around i began to hear large footsteps behind me, i turn around to see that its Titan stomping towards me, he grabs me by the collar of my chestplate and proceeds to lift me up over his head and slam me down onto the metal bench back first crumbling the bench. He begins to drag me by my collar to a balcony over a large mining hole said to be 30 miles in diameter and a thousand feet deep, he raises me over the balcony stating "you are too dangerous to be left alive now Hyde Jackson, not only did you bring back a Hound Chapter member of the most ancient and most powerful clan to ever exist on this planet and potentially beyond but you bare the mark of the chosen one in your eye" as he rambled his nonsense the reflection of my face appeared in my visor, my right eyes iris was red with black upside down pentagram as my pupil, the Sclera was pure black, my eyes began to focus back on Titan as he proceeds "if i keep you alive you will go mad with the Shroud Chapter Masters power and destroy us all Hyde, this is what needs to be done" he then threw me over the balcony edge into the multiple layered mining hole, as i fell backwards i could hear faint shouting from Locust, my head hit a rock, then my back hit another until my shoulder smacked into a crocked rock sending me spinning into a rusted and dusty mine cart of minerals and rocks landing on my back, i began to black out as the sun set and the moon began to rise.